Badfinger - Hold On

Badfinger were a Britishrock band that originally consisted of Pete Ham, Mike Gibbins, Tom Evans and Ron Griffiths. The band evolved from an earlier group called The Iveys that was formed in 1961 by Ham, Ron Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales. They were the first group signed by the Beatles' Apple label in 1968 as The Iveys. In 1969, Griffiths left and was replaced by Joey Molland, and the band renamed itself Badfinger. In 1970, the band engaged American businessman Stan Polley
to manage their commercial affairs. Over the next five years the band
recorded several albums for Apple and toured extensively, before they
became embroiled in the chaos of Apple Records' dissolution.

They signed to Warner Bros., but Polley's financial machinations resulted in a lawsuit by Warner over missing escrow account money. Warner's consequent withdrawal from market of the 1974 album, Wish You Were Here
(seven weeks after its release), cut off the band's income. Three days
before his 28th birthday, on 24 April 1975, Ham committed suicide by
hanging himself, leaving a note that included damning comments about
Polley.

Over the next three years, surviving members struggled to rebuild
their personal and professional lives against a backdrop of lawsuits.
The albums Airwaves (1979) and Say No More
(1981) floundered, as Molland and Evans see-sawed between cooperation
and struggle in attempts to revive and capitalise on the Badfinger
legacy. Having seen Ham's body after Ham's wife had called him, Evans
reportedly never got over his friend's suicide, and was quoted as saying
in darker moments, "I wanna be where he is." On 19 November 1983, Evans also took his own life by hanging.